5-Year-Old Indian Girl Fights For Life After Being Raped and Tortured For Days

5-Year-Old Indian Girl Fights For Life After Being Raped and Tortured For Days

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A 5-year-old girl is in critical condition at an Indian hospital after a man allegedly raped and tortured her over the course of several days, according to multiple reports.

The Times of India writes that the girl, who doctors said weighed under 50 lbs when she was admitted to the hospital, had an infection and had to have surgery to remove a candle and a bottle of hair oil that were found inside her.

The girl was located Wednesday in an apartment of the New Delhi building where she lived with her family, The Indian Express reports, noting that she had cuts on her neck and bite marks on her face and chest, presumably from her attacker.

Moreover, the medical superintendent of the hospital said she had a fever and that her blood pressure was "way below normal" when she was examined, per The Hindustan Times.

The girl had been missing for two days (four days, The Times of India says) when neighbors told her parents they heard screams from a first-floor apartment and kicked in the door, The Indian Express reports.

Her mother says the girl was kidnapped by a neighbor and raped, but that the neighbor has since absconded, according to The Times of India. The Indian Express notes that police have identified a 24-year-old suspect who lives in the building and are currently tracking him down.

The girl's father claims that city police initially refused to file a crime report and later attempted to buy his family's silence on the matter by giving him 2,000 Rupees (about $37), The Times Of India reported. An inquiry has been opened to investigate police misconduct, and three New Delhi police officials have been suspended, New Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said, according to The Indian Express.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that he was "deeply disturbed" by the crime. That same day, a protest erupted outside the New Delhi Hospital where the girl was recovering.

India has received much international attention in the wake of a young student's death after a brutal gang rape in December 2012, which also happened in New Delhi. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student's attackers inserted a metal rod inside her that had pulled out most of her intestines when it was removed, one of her doctors said in December.

In early February, India passed a series of measures into law, imposing harsher penalties for convicted rapists. Among other things, the new laws dramatically increase prison terms for rape and also outlaw sexual assault and stalking.

But the recent measures, which were rammed through the legislature to quench public desire for reform, fall short of outlawing marital rape and cannot be used to prosecute members of the army.

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*UpdateRape accused Manoj Kumar arrested from in-law's home in Bihar

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NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old man was arrested from his in-laws' house in Muzaffarpur in Bihar on Saturday for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl here five days ago with investigators suspecting that he fled the capital within an hour of committing the crime fearing the victim had died.

Manoj Kumar, a labourer in a garment factory in northeast Delhi, was apprehended from Chiknouta village, about 50km from Patna, at around 2am, Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police (east), told reporters here.

Kumar told police during initial interrogation that he fled the house in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar at around 7pm to catch the 8.30pm Swatantrata Senani Express for his hometown thinking that the girl has died.

Piecing together the sequence, investigators now believe that the girl might have been kidnapped around 6pm and raped and brutally assaulted allegedly by Kumar and he left the place around 7pm.

"Kumar told us that he left the house thinking that the girl was dead ... The girl was inside the house for 40 hours," Prabhakar said.

The girl's mother had told police that the victim, who was playing outside their home, went missing around 6pm and if the versions of both the mother and Kumar are to believed, the abduction and the brutal rape of the victim took place within one hour.

"We have got the transit remand of Kumar. He is being brought to Delhi. We will have to interrogate him to ascertain the facts," Prabhakar said.

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This is one of those cases where we should be seeing this guy burning alive from the actions of street justice. I know it's an awful thing to say, but in a case like this he deserves it. Who knows how many others he may harm, or may have already harmed.

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The girl's father claims that city police initially refused to file a crime report and later attempted to buy his family's silence on the matter by giving him 2,000 Rupees (about $37), The Times Of India reported. An inquiry has been opened to investigate police misconduct, and three New Delhi police officials have been suspended, New Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said, according to The Indian Express.